From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261178AbVAAVK6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:10:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261182AbVAAVK6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:10:58 -0500 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:59562 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261178AbVAAVKy (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jan 2005 16:10:54 -0500 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Georg C. F. Greve" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1104608007.14691.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:06:29 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2004-12-30 at 22:23, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Meanwhile, because of the trouble, I gave Alans patch-2.6.10-ac1 a try > > and again put ext3 on dm-crypt on raid5, and: No crash so far despite > > moving and removing ~100 gigabytes a couple of times on to/from the > > partition. > > Goodie. Maybe Alan already knows what it's about. Alan? Any slab > corruption or wild pointers that you are aware of? However: 2.6.9-ac had some differign raid/md backport stuff 2.6.10-ac does not. It has the fixes for the 1K block problem but I can't see these being relevant. > s